Most pretentious band and least pretentious in the world

Sorry, my bad.

I agree with what you were saying, too - you can't know for sure of any musician's pretentiousness from the music alone, but only from what they might say in interviews etc.
 
Somebody above used a dictionary entry for the word "pretense" - that's very misleading. Just because "pretentious" is a derivative of "pretense" doesn't mean you can gauge its most regular meaning from the latter.

The most frequent and commonly intended meaning of "pretentious" is the meaning of assuming an air of dignity and self-importance. This is also incidentally what is generally meant in the music press (and all art press) when some artist is deemed pretentious.

In that case, you can only really say that an artist is pretentious if they make that clear through what they say or how they behave.
 
Well, I think when critics talk about artists being pretentious, it has more to do with their music than them personally.

Ironically enough, the only thing critics EVER want to talk about is the artists personally, rather than their actual f*cking music.

I've always hated that.
 
Robert Fripp is annoying with his whole 'i hate prog rock' thing. He's not even the most important meraber of the band anymore. Hell, hasn't been for 27 years...
 
"Least pretentious? The Who for smashing their instruments every single show. That's rock n roll that is." You're not agreeing with him.
 
D-d-d-d-d-d-d-did you just diss Robert Fripp?

Thems fightin' worRAB motherf*cker. :bringit:

I do have to say though, did he actually say he hates prog? Well thats gotta suck for him, he created it.
 
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